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Koko Taylor News

  • Notable African-Americans we lost in 2009

    Notable African-Americans we lost in 2009

    By Clarence Haynes

    10:11 AM on 12/29/2009

    SLIDESHOW - As 2009 comes to an end, we take a moment to reflect on several public figures who have passed during the past year...

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  • Blues legend Koko Taylor remembered (video)

    Blues legend Koko Taylor remembered (video)

    By theGrio

    11:14 AM on 06/04/2009

    Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," died in Chicago Wednesday afternoon due to complications from surgery. She was 80 years old. Taylor died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, about two weeks after surgery to correct a gastrointestinal bleed....

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  • Blues great Koko Taylor dies at age 80 (video)

    By theGrio

    10:29 PM on 06/03/2009

    CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. She was 80. Taylor died Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital about two weeks after having surgery for...

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